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f; Following the completion of its review of the Special Permit Regulations, and the conducting of Report of the ft public hearings, the board voted on 8-21-02 to unani- d p g Planning Department a mously approve the Mashpee Planning Board Special Permit Regulations, as amended. ° d 4;. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen w 1 Other: and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: G o The board heard plans from Sea Coast, Inc., Echo Road, and Industrial Comm. & Electronics, On behalf of the Planning Department staff,itis 4 Echo Road, for wireless communication towers. Both my pleasure to submit this 19th annual report of the s developers received DRI approval from the Cape Cod Department. F Commission, which were subsequently appealed. No a court decision has been rendered as yet. As a result, In February 2002, we were very pleased to wel a the Planning Board is required to continue its public come back Eric Smith as our Assistant Planner.Eric ' v hearings on these two proposals until the court issue is served as Assistant Planner from 1995 to 1998, a resolved. authored much of our Comprehensive Plan and was s able to quickly fit back in as a very productive and The board conducted on-going hearings and dis- enthusiastic member of our team. Eric's principal role s cussions with Windchime Point Condominiums on is to serve as the primary staff person for the Planning t Phase II and III of their development project, and with Board. With extensive computer skills and training in f South Cape Village, Route 28 on proposed modifica- the field, he also manages the Department's € tions to their special permit.In addition,the board also Geographic Information System and serves as the heard a number of requests for release of performance Town's primary expert on GIS technology and apph. guarantees and approval not required plans. cations. Among other special projects, he has also ` become extensively involved in working with the Zoning Articles: Affordable Housing Committee to develop solutions 1 The only major change to the zoning regulations to our growing housing affordability problem and 1 was a citizen petition article which proposed convert- developing new Town maps with the assistance of ing two existing C-2 Commercial Districts located on recently-acquired Global Positioning Satellite (GPS); Route 151 and Route 130 to new C-3 "Limited equipment. Commercial" districts. Following an extensive public hearing,the Board voted to recommend approval at the As staff to the Planning Board, the Department October town meeting. was involved in the review and permitting of numerous subdivision and commercial development projects` Several other zoning articles dealing with needed during the year, with much of the Department's time technical corrections in wording and numbering in spent on modification requests to previously approved several sections of the regulations were also submitted projects, most notably the Windchime Paint to the voters for their consideration. The Planning Condominiums and the Quashnet Valley development. Board also approved 4 other zoning articles, but they The department also drafted the Board's first compre- were subsequently removed from the Town Warrant by hensive Special Permit Regulations, which were the Board of Selectmen. adopted in August. Your Planning Board conducts public meetings In addition to assisting the Planning Board with on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the y permit reviews and other tasks, the Department's gen, Mashpee Town Hall. These meetings are televised live eral functions include completing projects assigned by , on local cable channel 17.We urge all citizens to attend the Board of Selectmen and Town Administrator, and participate in your town's planning deliberations. including Land Bank and other land acquisition pro' jects,drafting zoning and other Town Meeting articles, Respectfully submitted, assisting other boards and committees with their activ- ities and responding to frequent requests from the pub- Beverly Kane, Chair lic for information and assistance. Dennis Balzarini, Vice-Chair Steve Dolan, Clerk Among our special projects for the year,working Richard Terry with the Open Space Committee were assistance or Don Myers the joint Land Bank purchase with Barnstable of more than 250 acres on Santuit Pond and Mashpee's Pur- chases of 9.2 acres on Quashnet Road and an 8000 s9, 110 k